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Seven years have passed since Henry Fool. Fay Grim lives with her son Ned, and her brother Simon Grim, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, remains at home with them. Agent Fulbright arrives believing Fay's husband Henry is dead; he tells her that Henry's confession notebooks have surfaced in France and that the CIA believes they hold information that could compromise American security. Fulbright presses Fay to locate the notebooks, and she flies to Paris to collect them. Each notebook has turned up in unlikely hands. Other agents, each wanting the journals, compete for her help. A former air hostess befriends Fay and aids her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fay Grim (2006)
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- Almost the entire film is shot with a tilted, “Dutched” camera: at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Hartley revealed that the two shots in the final cut that are not Dutched occurred only when he and the film crew forgot to tilt the camera.
- The primary filming location was Berlin, where Hartley had lived since 2004, and a number of Berlin locations stood in for New York, as filming in the actual state was deemed too expensive.
- Hartley read the 2003 mystery thriller novel The Da Vinci Code twice while writing the script, saying he wanted to make good on all the genre expectations that come with that kind of story.
